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Vancouver Whitecaps kick off pre-season training ahead of MLS entry

Incoming MLS outfit, Vancouver Whitecaps, have kicked off pre-season training for their admission into the league.

Players of the USL Division 1 club will undergo six weeks of training to try and maintain their places on the roster revealed head coach Teitur Thordarson.

"All the players here are still fighting for a place," he told the Vancovuer Sun.

"Fitness is a key for me, an absolute key," he said after the team training session Monday. "If we have the fitness level, we have time enough to work on the tactics [for MLS play] ... You can't expect to become a good football player by training just six or seven months a year."

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Andrew Slevison is an avid sports fan, particularly of the world game. The Melbourne, Australia native, who has spent time living in London and travelling South America, takes a keen interest in the English Premier League and Major League Soccer and rates his best live footballing moment as the 2014 World Cup final in Brazil.